... James Wood, 'The crisis of the bourgeoisie: The European Economic Community', in Revolutionary Communist Group ... in author's possession. 10 Pat Morris, Open Letter to All Members of the Revolutionary Communist Group, 1 February ...
"[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and ...
Beautifully written and incisive, this is the first English biography of a major Scandinavian author who is ripe for rediscovery While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose ...
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
And we are introduced to a bygone cast of intellectuals such as Edmund Wilson and Dwight Macdonald (the “tall pines,” as Mary McCarthy once called them, cut down now, according to Atlas, by the “merciless pruning of mortality”) and, ...
... James Wood ( New York , 2001 ) , 243 . 7. Isaac Rosenfeld letter to his aunts , Box 5.1 , Isaac Rosenfeld Papers , Spe- cial Collections , Regenstein Library , University of Chicago . 8. Untitled manuscript , begins “ For the thirteenth ...
With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s turbulent personal and professional life, as it unfolded against ...
Summer of Deliverance is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father. Hailed as a literary genius of his generation, James Dickey created his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion.
In this riveting landmark biography, Brown illuminates the life and career of the author of "Madame Bovary," shedding light on not only the novelist but also his milieu--the Paris and Normandy of the revolution of 1848 and of the Second ...
How does he do it? He has always wanted to write the kind of novel that would be read and reread so many times that the binding breaks and the book literally falls apart. As he says, “I’m still working on that one.”